ICACC 2022 Award and Plenary Speakers
2022
Award and Plenary Speakers
Monday, Jan 24
James I. Mueller Memorial Award
Richard Sisson
Manufacturing and Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Title: The future of materials engineering education
Thomas Speck
University of Freiburg and Cluster of Excellence Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS), Germany
Title: Plant materials systems and Structures: Bio-Inspiration for a “greener” technology in the 21st century
ECD Bridge Building
Award
Jingyang Wang
Advanced Ceramics and Composites Division, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
Title: Advanced environmental barrier coatings for SiCf/SiC composite
Y. shirley meng
Zable Chair Professor in Energy Technologies and professor in Materials Science & NanoEngineering, University of California San Diego, USA
Title: Designing better ceramic materials for future batteries
Global Young Investigator Award
Sunmi Shin, Assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Title: Thermal engineering using infrared photonic structures: probing coherent thermal emission in a single nano-object
ECD Jubilee Global Diversity Award
Each year, three early/mid-career and minority professionals are selected for the Engineering Ceramics Division’s Jubilee Global Diversity Award and are invited to present at the International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC) in Daytona Beach, FL (annual meeting of the Division). The awardees are encouraged to mentor students and promote society related activities at their institutions.
This award is intended to recognize exceptional early- to mid-career professionals who are women and/or underrepresented minorities (i.e. based on race, ethnicity, nationality and/or geographic location) in the area of ceramic science and engineering.
Cristina Balagna, Assistant professor, Materials Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Title: Nanostructured antibacterial/virucidal composite coatings
Zhaoju Yu, Professor, College of Materials, Xiamen University, China
Title: Putting metals into polymer derived ceramics: What happens?
Tyrone Jones, Advanced Body Armor Consultant, Inventor, USA